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Contractor’s Health and Safety Practices Model

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Small and medium-sized (SME) contractors’ form the bulk of contractors in the in Ghanaian construction industry. SME’s contractors’ health and safety issues have been a major problem to the construction industry. The laid down rules for health and safety (H&S) have been neglected, which has resulted into accidents on sites. Health and safety practices model of contractors in Ghana is presented. A six factor theoretical model developed from literature was used to develop the H&S model and safety practices of the Ghanaian contractors’. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on the selected variables to ascertain their suitability for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Three factors were retained from the six factor theoretical model during the CFA. Different factors for the model were obtained by combining some of the factors. Eight factors were obtained for the current model; with two factors having five variables and five factors have four variables each respectively. One factor has three variables.

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  1. Sustainable Human Settlements and Construction Research Centre, Department of Construction and Quantity Surveying. Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Wellington Didi Thwala, Zakari Mustapha & Clinton Aigbavboa

  2. Building Technology Department, Cape Coast Technical University, Cape Coast, Ghana

    Zakari Mustapha

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Thwala, W.D., Mustapha, Z., Aigbavboa, C. (2019). Contractor’s Health and Safety Practices Model. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94589-7_55

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